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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Gurdjieff learn from the dervish?
(a) to breathe, eat and exercise naturally
(b) to honor one's parents
(c) to be chaste before marriage
(d) not to practice hypnotism

2. Whom do Gurdjieff and Skridlov meet in Afridis?
(a) Father Francis
(b) Father Giovanni
(c) an old Armenian priest
(d) an old Yogi

3. What was Abram Yelov's background?
(a) He had left the military in disgrace.
(b) He had been a sailor on a Turkish ship.
(c) He was a former student of theology.
(d) He was of the Aisor people who had a bad reputation

4. Skidlov and Gurdjieff seek the source of what river together?
(a) the Euphrates
(b) the Nile
(c) the Volga
(d) the Tiber

5. Whom does Gurdjieff meet in a billiard hall in New Bukara and what transpires?
(a) He meets the prince again and they play billiards
(b) He meets Soloviev whom he saves from a beating.
(c) He meets a prostitute and goes home with her.
(d) He meets Ekim Bey who is on vacation.

6. What finally brought Gurdjieff and Karpenko together?
(a) Karpenko saved Gurdjieff's from drowning
(b) They both risked their lives and realized it was foolish
(c) the girl didn't choose either of them
(d) An old priest talked with them.

7. Why did Gurdjieff stay in Ekim Bey's house?
(a) He was a servant in the Bey household.
(b) He was working as tutor to Ekim's younger brother.
(c) He was visiting because he was a friend of the family
(d) He had become ill after diving for Bey's father's chaplet

8. With whom is Gurdjieff reunited at the monastery and what do they do together?
(a) with Prince Lubovesky and they watch a sacred dance
(b) with Pogossian and they visit the waterfall daily
(c) with Ekim Bey and they collaborate on a book.
(d) with Vitvitskaia and they fall in love.

9. Where do Gurdjieff and Soloviev travel together?
(a) to the ruins near Alexandropol
(b) to Egypt.
(c) to Russia
(d) to an ancient monastery in the heart of Asia.

10. What had Soloviev been at one time?
(a) a post office employee
(b) a priest
(c) a beggar
(d) a wealthy cattle herder

11. What finally happened to Yelov?
(a) He and his wife and children moved to Greece.
(b) He died a pauper in Moscow.
(c) He became a language professor at Moscow University.
(d) He settled comfortably in a city in North America.

12. What was one of Yelov's peculiar habits?
(a) hitching up his trousers
(b) reciting ancient Greek poems to everyone he met
(c) humming constantly
(d) twitching his ears

13. How did Gurdjieff meet Professor Skridlov?
(a) He worked for him in Armenia.
(b) He studied under him in Alexandropol.
(c) He studied under him in Kars.
(d) He became his guide in Egypt.

14. What did Yelov have a great talent for?
(a) learning languages
(b) writing poetry
(c) doing magic tricks
(d) making speeches

15. How did the Aisors make money?
(a) They were farmers.
(b) They were book sellers.
(c) They sold ancient Christian relics.
(d) They were mostly shepherds.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Gurdjieff meet Karpenko?

2. What town, inaccessible to Europeans, do Skridlov and Gurdjieff want to go to after visiting Bukara?

3. Where does Gurdjieff meet Professor Skridlov for the second time and what do they do?

4. What was Gurdjieff doing in Alexandropol when Karpenko stopped off to see him?

5. How did Gurdjieff meet Abram Yelov?

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